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Microsoft Turns to Bond Market as AI Spending Grows

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Microsoft is looking to raise at least $25 billion from its first US investment-grade bond offering in nearly a decade, according to people familiar with the matter. Bloomberg Intelligence’s Robert Schiffman discusses how this reinforces his view that AI spending will keep growing. He joins Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)

Meta discussed ‘whisper strategy’ against social media critic Jonathan Haidt, files show

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Court documents reveal staff considered ways to ‘get academic community to disavow’ influential US author

Meta staff discussed deploying a “whisper strategy” to undermine the influential US academic whose work has inspired a global social media crackdown, according to court documents.

Employees at the parent group of Facebook and Instagram sought to discredit Jonathan Haidt, the social psychologist and author of The Anxious Generation, a book that helped tip the debate about online safety towards more stringent measures such as the under-16 ban in Australia.

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